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anonymous blocks for dimensions
anonymous blocks for dimensions
hello!
i'm trying to create anonymous block (="*d") for my angular dimension and everything goes well except that nothing can be seen in my drawing file via autocad 2002. i know that the blocks are created because i examine the drawing file with odamfc example application.
do i need to set some dimension variables to get my block to be visible?
i'm sending my code as an attachement if someone could take a look at it...
attached files
i'm not sure that you should manually create this block - creating a dimension should generate such an anonymous block - isn't there some dwgdirect example?
best regards
chudomir
quote:
originally posted by chudo
i'm not sure that you should manually create this block - creating a dimension should generate such an anonymous block - isn't there some dwgdirect example?
thanks for reply!
we have non standard dimensions that we would like to show to users. that's why we need to override the graphics data of dimensions. so the dimension should look like different than it really is in dimension block. i'm sending a dwg file that should show what i mean. if you would look the file and explode the dimensions one by one you may see my purpose.
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sorry, i'm not sure how this can be achieved by overriding the dimension block - one way is to create a custom entity, other way is to burry into that large set of dimension variables...
best regards
chudomir
quote:
originally posted by chudo
sorry, i'm not sure how this can be achieved by overriding the dimension block - one way is to create a custom entity, other way is to burry into that large set of dimension variables...
thanks very much for replies!
i found out that the magic command was "pdim->recordgraphicsmodified(false);"
and after that i could set pdim->setdimblockid(object_id_block_anonymous);
now everything seems to work as i wanted.